of the United States therein.

Now, therefore, I, Benjamin Harrison, President of the United States,
pursuant to the above-recited statutes, hereby warn all persons against
entering the waters of Bering Sea within the dominion of the United
States for the purpose of violating the provisions of said section 1956,
Revised Statutes; and I hereby proclaim that all persons found to be or
to have been engaged in any violation of the laws of the United States
in said waters will be arrested and punished as above provided, and that
all vessels so employed, their tackle, apparel, furniture, and cargoes,
will be seized and forfeited.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of
the United States to be affixed.

[SEAL.]

Done at the city of Washington, this 4th day of April, 1891, and of the
Independence of the United States the one hundred and fifteenth.

BENJ. HARRISON.

By the President:
JAMES G. BLAINE,
_Secretary of State_.

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

A PROCLAMATION.

Whereas, pursuant to an act of Congress approved May 15, 1886, entitled
"An act making appropriations for the current and contingent expenses
of the Indian Department and for fulfilling treaty stipulations with
various tribes for the year ending June 30, 1887, and for other
purposes," an agreement was entered into on the 14th day of December,
1886, by John V. Wright, Jared W. Daniels, and Charles F. Larrabee,
commissioners on the part of the United States, and the Arickaree, Gros
Ventre, and Mandan tribes of Indians, residing on the Fort Berthold
Reservation, in the then Territory of Dakota, now State of North Dakota,
embracing a majority of all the male adult members of said tribes; and

Whereas by an act of Congress approved March 3, 1891, entitled "An act
making appropriations for the current and contingent expenses of the
Indian Department and for fulfilling treaty stipulations with various
Indian tribes for the year ending June 30, 1892, and for other
purposes," the aforesaid agreement of December 14, 1886, was accepted,
ratified, and confirmed, except as to article 6 thereof, which was
modified and changed on the part of the United States so as to read
as follows:

That the residue of lands within said diminished reservation, after all
allotments have been made as provided in article 3 of this agreement,
shall be held by the said tribes of Indians as a reservation.

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